
The girl said another man was making her friend feel uncomfortable but she managed to get out of the sea. "I was alone now and the guy started pulling me out to deeper water and I couldn't feel my feet on the sea floor. "It's then he started touching me and I was telling him 'no' and to get off me.

Cruz tweeted "Um, get a job?" in response to news that unemployment benefits expired for jobless Americans. Twitter users criticized Cruz for his insensitivity and his lack of understanding of the situation. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reacted to news that millions of Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Labor Day by telling those who are out of work to "get a job."

Afghanistan War veteran and former New York congressional candidate Kyle Van De Water died suddenly on Tuesday, according to local officials. Van De Water, a Republican attorney who challenged incumbent Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado in 2020, was located by police at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery after someone reported a "man down." Police sources said his death is being investigated as a suicide, according to the Mid Hudson News.

Pfizer (PFE) and its partner BioNTech (BNTX) recently got FDA full approval for the most widely-approved and sought after COVID-19 vaccine in the world, to date. It signals an important change in how vaccines of the future could look, according to Arnaud Bernaert, formerly head of Global Health and Healthcare at the World Economic Forum. Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna (MRNA) are invested in the tech, with announcements of pursuits of combination flu-covid shots as well as other diseases.
Investigators say that when they captured Marine veteran Bryan Riley outside the Lakeland, Fla. home where he allegedly killed a couple, their 3-month-old son and the boy's grandmother, he told them, โYou know why I did this.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said women who have been raped have six weeks to get an abortion. AOC said Abbott lacked knowledge of basic biology and six weeks means two weeks late on a period. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's response on abortion for people who had been raped "disgusting."

The culprit, who cannot be named to protect the identities of the victims โ who were aged 14 and 16 at the time of the offences in 2017 and 2018 โ pleaded guilty at the High Court to two charges of rape involving each victim. Another seven similar charges were considered in sentencing: two counts of rape and four counts of aggravated molest involving the younger victim, and one count of rape involving the older victim. In September 2017, the younger victim, who was then 14, came home from school early as she was sick.

A now-viral video posted to TikTok shows a woman trying to unsuccessfully steal an entire rack of Nike Pants from a local sporting goods store in Illinois, and it's all the fault of her getaway driver. The video, which was uploaded to TikTok by the account @faxisfax, shows the would-be heist go haywire after the woman, who is seen on the TikTok clutching a whole rack of pants, tries to open the back door of her getaway driver's car. As she screams at the driver to unlock the door and knocks on the rear door mirror, the driver skirts out of the parking lot, leaving her behind.

Matt Gaetz said Trump would probably run in 2024 because he "wants to throw punches as a combatant." Politico reported that Trump's leadership PAC was steadily laying the groundwork for a 2024 bid. Gaetz added that "a good rule in politics is to be a candidate for as short a time as necessary."

A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to death at their home three months ago and was injured days ago when a bullet grazed his head as he changed a tire was taking money from his law firm, the business said late Monday. The statement from PMPED law firm came hours after Alex Murdaugh said he was resigning and entering rehab. The PMPED law firm said it will hire an accounting firm to fully review its books.

A Yellowstone National Park tourist on Saturday captured video footage showing a wolf repeatedly biting a grizzly bear's butt. The distant footage, captured by Gary Gaston in the northern portion of the park, also reveals a bear whose best defense seems simply to sit and become less vulnerable against the quicker wolf. Gaston told FTW Outdoors that there was a large animal carcass โ โprobably an elkโ โ in a nearby thicket, which explains the presence of wolves, bears, and ravens in the same area.

As one of only two people who survived 9/11 by surfing down the Twin Towers collapse, Pasquale Buzzelli has a mixture of survivor's guilt and gratefulness. Here I am given this gift, and I wanted to make the most of it,โ he told 60 Minutes Australia. At the same time, he struggles to make sense of why he survived and others didn't.

More than 42 million old vehicle tyres dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world's largest tyre graveyards. But this month Kuwait, which wants to build 25,000 new houses on the site, finished moving all the tyres to a new location at al-Salmi, near the Saudi border, where recycling efforts have begun. "The factory is helping society by cleaning up the dumped old tyres and turning them into consumer products," said EPSCO partner and CEO Alaa Hassan from EPSCO, adding they also export products to neighbouring Gulf countries and Asia.

Authorities arrested a Louisiana man who called 911 to report being struck by a Tesla after policeย reviewed video footage from the car that told a different story. Around 4 p.m. Friday, the Slidell Police Department saidย 47-year-old Arthur Bates Jr. called 911, saying the Tesla had backed into himย and caused back, leg and neck injuries. Bates had said the driver of the Tesla fled the scene, but whenย officers got in contact with the driver, they said Bates actually fabricated the whole eventย โ and there was proof he did.

It's one thing to see an extinct animal's skeleton in a museumโa terrific way to learn about their lives based on scientific clues and their remains. This creature, also known as a Thylacine, resembles a dog with tiger stripes. Now, the last known images of this animal are available via the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NSFA).

On a single day last November, two events helped set the course for just the second recall election against a governor in California history: Gov. Gavin Newsom dined with 11 friends and lobbyists at one of the country's most expensive restaurants as he pleaded with Californians to stay home, while those looking to kick him out of office won four more months to qualify for the ballot. Photos of the maskless dinner showed the Democratic governor going against what he had been urging for months to combat the coronavirus: don't gather in groups, keep your distance, wear a mask. โWe had a perfect storm with the judge's ruling, with the French Laundry incident, with the greater environment of COVID and the economic disaster," said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California.

A little over a week ago, Magnachip Semiconductor was notified by the US Treasury Department that it had identified national security risks in the Delaware chip company's proposed US$1.4 billion sale to Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital. This new focus on "non-notified transactions" illustrates how comprehensively the US is trying to limit China's opportunities to obtain Americans' personal data and intellectual property. The spotlight on these mergers added to other measures - the Treasury Department's blacklist of Chinese companies that allegedly have ties to China's military and the Commerce Department's export control regulation - that prohibit American capital from investing in Chinese firms and restrict sensitive technologies from being sold to China.

This time, his attention is on Malibu, where records reveal the perennial A-lister has plunked down $13.8 million for an oceanfront retreat squirreled away in the city's far westward reaches, well out of sight from prying eyes and away from the traffic-thronged downtown area. Back in the day, DiCaprio actually owned three Malibu houses, all of them oceanfront. Another house โ a substantially larger affair just outside the Malibu Colony gated community โ was sold off in 2013 for $17.4 million to its current owners, New York-based hedge fund mogul Christian Leone and his husband, interior designer Malcolm Kutner.

Republicans in America's largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan โKeep Texas Red,โ a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics. Faced with increasingly dire demographic threats to their party's dominance, Texas Republicans have championed a bevy of boundary-pushing conservative policymaking that dramatically expands gun rights, curbs abortions and tightens election laws โ steering a state that was already far to the right even more so. โTexas, obviously, is a national leader as it concerns the laws that we pass and other states follow,โ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is fond of vowing to make Texas the โfreedom capital of America,โ said Tuesday.

The House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday it would initiate investigations into four lawmakers over separate possible violations cited by an outside ethics group. The subjects are Tom Malinowski, a New Jersey Democrat; Alex Mooney, a West Virginia Republican; Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Minnesota Republican; and Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican. The 10-member, bipartisan ethics panel announced it would investigate the lawmakers after receiving referrals from the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, which can investigate lawmakers based on outside complaints.

Brian Downey, deputy mayor of Airmont, New York, is facing criminal charges. Downey was arrested after law enforcement officials executed a search warrant last week. A deputy mayor of a city in New York state faces federal charges after authorities discovered unregistered firearms and bogus badges for federal agencies, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

Hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel, the founder of $11 billion "Black Swan" hedge fund Universa Investments, says investors have been getting risk mitigation wrong from the start. The 50-year-old professional safe-haven investor said, "The goal of risk mitigation, like the goal of investing, should be to raise our rate of compounding over time," which he adds "flies in the face of everything we know from modern finance."

Justin Cline, 15, died from COVID-19 on Sunday after testing positive on Aug. 9, according to his father, George Cline. The teenager loved to dance to Johnny Cash, go swimming, and spend time with his loved ones. โTo sit there and watch it is the most difficult thing I've ever went through,โ said Doyle Manley, a longtime friend of Cline's family who, along with his wife, helped take care of Justin.

Chris Hemsworth built huge muscles to play Thor with the help of Luke Zocchi, his personal trainer. Intermittent fasting was crucial for hitting the goal weight and the results were "crazy," he said. The actor Chris Hemsworth is best known for sporting a godlike physique as Thor, and building and maintaining Marvel muscles takes a lot of hard work and strategy.

(Reuters) -Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said Credit Suisse told him it was closing his foundation's bank account in Switzerland earlier this year citing his "criminal record" in China, despite the activist never being convicted of a crime. One of China's most high-profile artists and political activists, Ai, who now lives in Portugal, wrote in an opinion piece for website Artnet how he was first told by the Swiss bank that it would close the account in the spring of this year. "Credit Suisse initially informed me that they had a new policy to terminate all bank accounts which are related to people with criminal records," Ai told Reuters in an emailed statement, adding the foundation had been asked at the time to move the funds before September.


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โDoing something bold like giving up flying can have a wider knock-on effect by influencing others and shifting whatโs viewed as โnormal.โโ
โInstead of calling for restrictions on peopleโs behavior โฆ we should focus on the kind of action thatโs really going to be effective.โ
โIndividual actions matter in that they can reduce emissions โฆ But, alone, it is nowhere near enough.โ
โBuilding community around action should be our measure of success, and it can happen right now.โ